I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel group. I could log on to root in a console, but not su. Try it.
HTH Mike On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:14 pm, Eric Marchionni wrote: > hi > > i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. > otherwise more people will also experience this problem... > > regards, > eric > > Mike Arrison wrote: > > Paulo, > > I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with > > the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that one > > of the versions of dhcp overwrites the /etc/passwd and|or /etc/group > > files. This is _very_ bad. Either, your root user got blown away, > > or, more likely, you got kicked out of the wheel group in the > > /etc/group file. If you have a backup of /etc/group and /etc/passwd > > I'd recommend finding the effected lines. > > > > -Mike Arrison > > > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I have Gentoo Linux installed in my PC and today I did as usually su - > >>root to change to root. I entered the password for root, and emerged > >>dhcp. After that I exited root and since then I was enable to enter as > >>root. It's just not accepting my password, which is extremely odd. I've > >>tried a hundred times already and I know the correct password, I'm > >>surely not wrong and caps lock is just ok. > >> > >>Any ideas on how to solve this issue? > >> > >>Best regards, > >> > >>Paulo J Matos > >> > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.20 lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 4.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
